IMR Press / RCM / Volume 23 / Issue 10 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2310337
Open Access Original Research
Developing an Exercise Attitudes and Behavior Intentions Questionnaire for Survivors of Aortic Dissection: An Exploratory Factor Analysis
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1 Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430030 Wuhan, Hubei, China
2 School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430030 Wuhan, Hubei, China
*Correspondence: huangsufang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (Sufang Huang)
Academic Editors: Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, Kazuhiro P. Izawa and Peter H. Brubaker
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2022, 23(10), 337; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2310337
Submitted: 5 May 2022 | Revised: 18 August 2022 | Accepted: 29 August 2022 | Published: 11 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cardiac Rehabilitation—Volume 2)
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Purpose: Our study aimed to develop a questionnaire to assess the reliability and validity of exercise attitudes and behavior intentions among survivors of an aortic dissection (AD). Methods: There were two phases to the study between April 2021 and April 2022. Phase I involved the development of an initial version of the Exercise Attitudes and Behavior Intentions Questionnaire (EABIQ) through literature reviews, qualitative interviews, Delphi expert consultations and a pre-experimental study. During Phase II, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire was assessed in 160 survivors with AD. Results: A 62-item EABIQ for AD survivors was developed. Eleven common components with eigenvalues larger than 1 were identified by exploratory factor analysis. The scale’s variance explained cumulatively rate was 75.216%. The content validity index at the item level for the EABIQ varied from 0.813 to 1.000 and the S-CVI/Ave was 0.934. The correlation coefficients between each scale dimension and the overall scale ranged from 0.405 to 0.785, with all p-values less than 0.05. Cronbach’s alpha for the whole scale was 0.929, with Cronbach’s alpha for each domain ranging from 0.835 to 0.965. The overall scale split-half reliability coefficient was 0.960, with each domain’s split-half reliability coefficient ranging from 0.844 to 0.962. Conclusions: The AD exercise attitudes and behavior intentions questionnaire has high reliability and validity and is generally consistent with the hypothetical theoretical framework. It can be used as a judgment tool to measure the exercise behavior for AD patients.

Keywords
aortic dissection
exercise
attitudes
behavior intentions
reliability
validity
Funding
Project 71874063/National Natural Science Foundation of China
HUST:YCJJ202201055/the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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